Handoff

Preserve enough session context for a fresh agent to orient quickly, then keep the user in control of what happens next.

Creation and resume are deliberately open at their edges. The managed store and ce-handoff/v1 metadata are defaults that make CE-created handoffs easy to find; they do not restrict where a handoff may be created or what a user may resume from. A resume source may come from any person, agent, or system and may use any readable format.

Route the invocation

• A bare invocation always creates a handoff.
• create [focus] explicitly creates one. Use focus as the intended objective for the next session.
• resume [source or keywords] reads an explicit continuity source or discovers likely candidates.
• Natural-language creation and resume intent follows the same routes. This does not apply to ordinary requests to continue the current session unless the user expresses handoff intent.

Create

Outcome

Create one immutable handoff at the destination the user requested, or use the managed temporary store by default. Briefly summarize what the handoff captured, then report its final path or URL, retention or access limits, and continuity warnings. The handoff supplements authoritative artifacts; it does not replace them.